Better Tone With No Practice??

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

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[@vikkibrown188]

Candy Dulfer. Lily was here. If only..🤔🤔

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Believe. 🤩

[@fulhamboy70]

Hi Jamie, i don’t have any particular player i like to listen to, and I love to play any genre although jazz is my least favourite. I just love to play, anything, really. I have started using tomplay recently and love the variety on offer, classical, pop, 60’s, 70’s. I’m just pleased i can play something that sounds similar

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Yeh Tom play is cool.

[@fulhamboy70]

I should have said, one guy i do listen to is someone called Jamie Anderson, he is quite good 👏👏👍👍

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

@@fulhamboy70 aw shucks!

[@JayCee-hw4zc]

Hey Jamie, I recently bought a jazz lab sax holder and in the box were 2 bits of information about a sound deflector and a mouthpiece silencer. Have you heard of these and what is your opinion? (They sound a bit dubious to me). Jay.

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Sound deflector is probably good, MP silencer a waste of time.

[@patrickmarino8110]

Long tones on the sax are a great way to improve tone quality. Tone color can be improved with equipment as well as concept of a good tone. People should try for a clean beautiful sound . Probably the sound that got them interested in saxophone in the first place.

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Ok 👍🏻

[@robinreidmusic]

Great one Jamie. Alto for me is Phil Woods and Cannonball Adderley, and Tenor Dextor Gordon, Eddie LockJaw Davis, and Johnny Griffin. Stan Getz and Joe Henderson and new lads Joshua Redman. Cheers mate .

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Great influences!

[@ThorFitness_820]

2nd view!! I have been waiting for a video of yours😀Thanks a lot for your teaching

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

You’re very welcome! 🙏🏻

[@TedMaciag]

As a working musician those iconic sax lines all have a different tamber to them, mostly fairly dirty in nature. So if one wants to work on a solo voice it can be quiet the conflict.

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Interesting! 🧐

[@thjs]

For me, nelson rangell is on my top list for alto sax sound - especially the song 'grace'. Looking forward for the new free masterclasses, thanks a lot.

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Awesome 🤩

[@nhr27]

I always come back to Rangel when I cannot decide on who to listen to. He and Eric Merienthall

[@mironhorodi4429]

Jamie, you're one of my favorite players, and I love your sound :-). Thank you for this lovely video.

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

You’re very welcome ☺️

[@montesfam5]

Hi Jamie, Benny Golson. And I actually have had the pleasure of receiving an email from him with some heartfelt advice and thanking me for thanking him on one of his songs I’ve been practicing , (killer Joe) 🎷. He’s 90 years old and still plays fantastic. Looking forward to your lessons And advice on playing ,Jamie. Your teaching methods are brilliant. 🎷🤓

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Isn’t he one of only two people left from the famous great day in Harlem photo? (With sonny rollins)

[@Osnosis]

@@GetYourSaxTogether Yep

[@montesfam5]

@@GetYourSaxTogether He practiced saxophone with his childhood buddy John Coltrane. You can see him also in the movie “The Terminal” with Tom Hanks.

[@RoninGroupUK]

Hi Jamie, As you know I cant read a single note of music. Tried a few times over the years starting with my first sax teacher when i was 13 right up until a few years ago and it always just looks like chicken scratch and i never get it. Hence why i love your channel which teaches the fingering chart which really works and is easier for us sax players to understand. I read that Eric Clapton is the same and found out he is a fellow INTJ. We apparently make good musicians according to channels like this kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3rLcnVpqrV2gJo I was wondering have you ever done your MBTI test and found out which you are and how has it made a difference to your seemingly effortless abilities and gift with music. Cheers dude. ~ Wolfwaw

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

You’ll have to explain the acronyms to me I’m afraid?

[@RoninGroupUK]

@@GetYourSaxTogether MBTI = Myers Briggs Type Indicator. Its a free online test which tells you which of the 16 personality types you are. Some are more inclined to different professions than others. Every one has different personalities and natural abilities. I was wondering which one of the creatives one you were. ps Just bought you a coffee buddy.

[@RoninGroupUK]

@@GetYourSaxTogether kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGjYZpWLjJpoY80

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

@@RoninGroupUK many thanks for the coffee. Much appreciated! I’ll add that test to my to dos!

[@wyndhleodumegwu253]

Great advice, Jamie.

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Thanks 🙏🏻

[@joshcharlat850]

Specific song for sure.

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Awesome 😎

[@angang3604]

Thought provoking as always Jamie.....but surely I can't sound like you (my hero :-), because I don't have your larynx, throat and experience...I could try to copy your style eg your phrasing, scoops, bends, but with my larynx I'm always going to sound like me, me wanting to sound like you isn't do the voodoo right? Angus

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Ultimately you will sound like you, yes, but there’s a lot of possibilities within that!

[@gangofgreenhorns2672]

Lenny Pickett, Gary Herbig, and Cave Music/the Moon Hooch guys (Wenzl McGowen and Mike Wilbur)--and just all the gritty saxophonists from the 80s i heard growing up.

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

It all goes in! 👍🏻

[@saxrem]

Thanks for your video and very recognizable! Listen and play along a lot with your favorite players helped me develop my sound. For me the contemporary jazz players are a great inspiration. In the early days Kenny G and King Curtis and nowadays its Boney James, Micheal Lington, Vincent Ingala and Richard Elliot. Still (have)had a lot of work to do on my horn (and setup) )the sound doesn't come easy :)

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

You’re doing the right thing!

[@kingzephyr9897]

Right on Jaime. My inner Chuck Rio comes out every time I pick up a tenor. That's what I hear in my head and have figured out how to do it.

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Perfect!

[@trefordavies3670]

Cheers Jamie ! Good call .. I am off to listen to Paul Desmond for a few hours .

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Perfect. 👌🏻

[@tomtresco2952]

Thanks Jamie I know exactly what you mean and I can relate to it, Have a coffee on me mate for all the effort you put into these vids, love your persona.

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Thanks for the coffee 🙏🏻

[@stevepethel6843]

Excellent. Brilliant .You are great...

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Thank you so much 😀

[@robstevens9590]

Thanks Jamie! I have so many "favorite" players, with such a variety of tone - I play alto, but a few years ago I wanted to sound like tenor player Ben Webster. I played a gig with one piano player who said my alto doesn't sound like a "normal" alto. But the spectrum of alto players I want to sound like goes from Paul Desmond & Johnny Hodges to Sonny Criss, Boney James, Candy Dulfer and Everette Harp (etc.). I guess I just end up sounding like me. I recently started playing soprano and I have a much clearer & more focused idea of what I want to sound like.

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Eventually it will all go into one pot, for sure.

[@nhr27]

I just made the same comment before reading yours! I too try to make my alto sound as “big” as a tenor. Check out Bon Reynolds on tenor. The closest Alto player I’ve heard that achieves this concept is Donald Hayes. His sound is huge on alto. I think he uses a very large tip opening with a hard reed to achieve it.

[@robstevens9590]

@@nhr27 Thanks for mentioning this! I had never heard Donald Hayes before you mentioned him, but I really like his sound!

[@nhr27]

I love this message. I have been listening to sax players most of my life and I can never decide what sound concept I like. One day I like dark and round and the next day I’m listening to Sandborn. I am hoping that my concept ends up being a unique mix of all that I listen to. So like a classic, contemporary, warm, bright, focused and round alto sound. Ha! I just have an alto and recently I’ve been trying to make it sound like a tenor because I love Bob Reynolds. The closest I’ve heard to an Alto player sounding as big as a tenor is Donald Hayes. Big sound that is warm but accomplished on a metal piece. He’s insane. Wow, in typing this I figured it out. I want to sound like Donald Hayes! For now ;-)

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Brilliant Nate. Keep practicing! 😉

[@marcelorozas8806]

exelente

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Thanks 🙏